Archive for October, 2009

Food dump, dodgeball tourny, Friendly Costume Party and more

// October 28th, 2009 // No Comments » // Youth News

Video overview of this week’s news

Food dump at New Life Church this Thursday

Last month some of us had the privilege of joining New Life Church and their monthly food dump by distributing free food to people in the community. We’re doing it again this Thursday, October 29. They need help from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Just show up at New Life Church if you’re available. See the video above for more information.

Dodgeball Tournament

The dodgeball tournament against other youth groups in our community is scheduled for November 21 at 1:00 PM at Lake Community Church. Get together a team of jr. high or high school students and pick up a registration packet at the youth kiosk at church, or download it here. See the video above for some taunting from New Life’s youth pastor!

Friendly Costume Party this Saturday

We need all the help we can get from you youth group kids this Saturday. The Friendly Costume Party won’t be a success without you. Please plan to come help us setup starting at 1:30 PM. We around 8:00 PM with a pizza party for everyone who helped, so if you can stop by and help out for a bit during the evening, that would be great. There’s also sign-ups for time slots at the youth kiosk at church.

Rick Lenarz speaking at Sr. High Impact

Starting this week, Rick Lenarz will be teaching a three-week series at Sr. High Impact on Sunday nights.

  • November 1: Who am I? (Our identity in Christ)
  • November 8: Unify (Bonding together with the body of Christ
  • November 15: The Quest (Reaching others for Christ

Sr. High Impact is every Sunday night at 6:30 PM at church.

November 8 is also Immerse, a worship experience that’s open to our entire congregation. We’ll join the worship time at 6:30 PM, like normal, and then we’ll go off into another room when it’s finished for Rick’s lesson.

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News video, No Journey/C-Groups, Food dump dates, Fields of Faith, more

// October 14th, 2009 // No Comments » // Youth News

Youth group news video

This week my little 10-week old little girl, Hannah, shares some of the announcements. Seriously, she does! Also watch to learn how to do a cool, but simple, magic trick.

Next Food Dump

A couple weeks ago some of us had the privilege of joining New Life Church and their monthly food dump by distributing free food to people in the community. We’re doing it again this month on October 29. They need help from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Just show up at New Life Church if you’re available. See the video above for pictures from the last time we did it. (Thanks, Cassia, for taking the pics!)

Also, they have 10,000 pounds of beans and 10,000 pounds of potatoes that need to be packaged sometime before the food dump, but they don’t know when that will be yet. Since it will be a pretty last-minute event, I’ll send the announcement out via Facebook and our text message list as soon as I find out when it is. So make sure you’re a fan of www.facebook.com/AlexandriaYouth and that you’re on our mass text messaging list.

Cancellations this week

Due to MEA, there are no C-Groups nor is there Journey this week. Enjoy your time with your family!

New Journey rules

If you are in The Journey, this is very important. Previously we allowed students to hang out either in their classrooms or in the gym for the first half-hour of game time. However, everyone must now be in the gym by 6:30 PM. You don’t have to play the games if you don’t want to, but you still need to be in there until your group is dismissed to your room.

Also, we love having guests and friends come join us throughout the year! Just make sure they’re registered by the second visit. It’s very important that we have everyone’s name and their parent’s contact information while they hang out with us at church.

Thanks, guys!

Fields of Faith canceled

Wednesday, October 14, was supposed to be the date for Fields of Faith on the football field after the game this evening, but that’s been canceled due to the pending weather. It will be rescheduled for a future time.

Dodgeball Tournament

It’s scheduled for November 21 at 1:00 PM at Lake Community Church. Be sure to start forming teams of 6 to enter and compete against other teams and youth groups from around our community. There are even some youth groups from other towns in Minnesota coming to complete! It’s $3/person and registration packets will be available at church soon. There are prizes for the winning team.

News video, Dodgeball tournament, Friendly Costume Party sign-ups, and more

// October 7th, 2009 // No Comments » // Videos, Youth News

News Video for October 6

Watch the video below for a chance to win a CD and hear about lots of other things happening around our youth group.

Jr High worship band practice tonight

If you’re in 7th or 8th grade and are interested in leading worship once a month with the Journey, just bring your instrument and/or voice to practice tonight at 5:00 PM at church. Pizza will be provided afterwards.

Mexico missionaries at C-Groups tonight

Tom and Janice Kelly will be at the Giroux’s C-Group tonight to talk about their mission work in Mexico. Dinner starts at 6:30 PM, so show up for some good food followed by their talk.

Allies Dodgeball Tournament

Yes! That’s right — form your own teams of 6 to compete in a dodgeball tournament against teams from other youth groups in our community! You’ll get a cool team uniform and the winning team gets a trophy! It’s on Saturday, November 21, and starts at 1:00 PM at Lake Community Church. Feel free make a team with kids outside our church, too!

To enter, you’ll need to pick up a registration packet from the church in about a week or two. For now, form your teams!

Friendly Costume Party sign-ups

On October 31 our church is hosting the annual Friendly Costume Party here at church. We need as many people as possible to sign up to help! Check out the list at the youth kiosk at church to sign-up for the 1:30 to 5:00 PM shift and/or the 5:00 to 8:30 PM shift. A pizza party and a movie will follow afterwards.

Greg Stier to answer all your evangelism questions

A couple weeks ago you sr. high students wrote a lot of questions about evangelism and sharing your faith. On October 18, Greg Stier (the guy from The Gospel Journey series) and myself will show a video of us answering all your questions. Come to Sr. High Impact on October 18 to have your questions answered. It starts at 6:30 PM!

Sr. High Fall Retreat at Lake Beauty

The early registration deadline has passed, but you can still register up until October 16. The cost is $105 and the retreat dates are October 23-25. Pick up a registration form at the youth kiosk at church.

In case you missed Impact last week…

Some people have been asking about the videos we showed concerning the Muslim girl who converted to Christianity and is now receiving death threats from her family and Muslim groups around the world. I posted all those videos on my personal blog if you wanna see them.